Solos caractéristiques pour saxophone sélectionnés par Nicolas Prost-After publishing the Adolphe Sax Album devoted to early solos from the time of Adolphe Sax this second volume proposes a similar approach and traces the path of the Saxophone from its origin in the 1840s to the beginning of the20th century.In addition to being able to read the scores this work provides an indispensable pedagogical tool for expanding knowledge about Sax?s instrument well before it gained popularity through jazz pop etc.Saxophonists professors students musicologists and Saxophone lovers in general will be interested in the various solos rare or even unknown melodies characteristic of typical writing for the instrument and how composers usedit in relation to the musicological historical and esthetic context of the period.

For Saxophone Choir-There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York/It Ain’t Necessarily So/Summertime/I Got Plenty o' Nuttin’ is a song from the American opera Porgy and Bess composed in 1935 by George Gershwin (1898-1937) to a libretto by DuBose Heyward and his brother Ira Gershwin after Heyward’s novel Porgy - a story about the love between the crippled negro beggar Porgy and the girl Bess in the city of Charleston in South Carolina. The première - not a huge success - took place on 10 October 1935 in New York.With his opera Gershwin wanted to gain recognition as a composer of classical music. Incidentally he demanded that all parts were sung by black performers; only a few unimportant parts without sung lyrics were allowed to be performed by white actors. This rule still applies: Gershwin has stated in the terms of his will that only black people were allowed stage the opera.Porgy & Bess has become popular only after Gershwin’s death. In 1959 a wonderful film was made; the soundtrack won a Grammy Award. The work is not very often performed possibly because of the difficulty of finding a whole cast of black opera singers. However various pieces from the opera are still regularly performed in numerous arrangements.